I Started a Joke Chords & Tabs

by Bee Gees

[Intro]
(acoustic guitar [open D] w/bass):
  D                 
e|-----------------|
B                   
G|---------7-5-4---|
D|---------------7-|
A|-----------------|
E|-----------------|
G    Bm    C   D7   x2

[Verse 1]
G            Bm C
I started a joke
                  D          G      Bm C
Which started the whole world crying
    D         G Bm C
But I didn't see
          D         G   Bm  C D
That the joke was on me, oh no

[Verse 2]
G            Bm C
I started to cry
                  D          G        Bm C
Which started the whole world laughing
       D          G Bm C
Oh, if I'd only seen
         D            G
That the joke was on me

[Chorus]
Em               Bm  
I looked at the skies
             C            G  
Running my hands over my eyes
    Bm            Em 
And I fell out of bed
Em/D       Am  
Hurting my head
D     N.C.
From things that I'd said

[Verse 3]
G            Bm    C
'Til I finally died
                 D            G     Bm C
Which started the whole world living
  C    D       G    Bm C
Oh, if I'd only seen
         D           G 
That the joke was on me

[Chorus]
Em               Bm  
I looked at the skies
             C            G  
Running my hands over my eyes
    Bm            Em 
And I fell out of bed
Em/D       Am  
Hurting my head
D     N.C.
From things that I'd said

[Verse 4]
G            Bm    C
'Til I finally died
                  D           G     Bm C
Which started the whole world living
       D          G Bm C
Oh, if I'd only seen
         D           G Bm C
That the joke was on me

[Coda]
          D         G  Bm C D
That the joke was on me
G   Bm C D G
Oh...